Denim
#1,911 for girls in 2025, 101 births · #880 for boys in 2025, 271 births
Given to boys 70.8% of the time
- Peak · boys
- 2025 · 271 births
- Debut · boys
- 5 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 2,721since 1973
Denim over time
Rank within each sex, plotted together. Click any year to open it.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | #1,911 | 101 | #880 | 271 |
| 2024 | #2,134 | 89 | #1,106 | 194 |
| 2023 | #2,314 | 79 | #1,244 | 156 |
| 2022 | #2,404 | 76 | #1,263 | 154 |
| 2021 | #2,510 | 70 | #1,230 | 156 |
| 2020 | #2,682 | 62 | #1,415 | 122 |
| 2019 | #2,561 | 68 | #1,372 | 130 |
| 2018 | #2,334 | 78 | #1,328 | 136 |
| 2017 | #3,014 | 54 | #1,272 | 143 |
| 2016 | #2,761 | 62 | #1,467 | 117 |
| 2015 | #3,299 | 49 | #1,625 | 98 |
| 2014 | #3,778 | 40 | #1,627 | 95 |
| 2013 | #4,422 | 32 | #1,588 | 97 |
| 2012 | #4,121 | 36 | #1,942 | 73 |
| 2011 | #4,353 | 33 | #2,798 | 42 |
| 2010 | #7,880 | 15 | #1,739 | 87 |
| 2009 | #7,066 | 18 | #1,852 | 79 |
| 2008 | #6,559 | 20 | #2,062 | 67 |
| 2007 | #5,709 | 24 | #1,972 | 71 |
| 2006 | #8,237 | 14 | #1,840 | 74 |
| 2005 | #5,999 | 20 | #2,035 | 61 |
| 2004 | #5,062 | 25 | #1,834 | 67 |
| 2003 | #5,795 | 20 | #2,055 | 55 |
| 2002 | #7,045 | 15 | #2,068 | 52 |
| 2001 | — | #5,390 | 13 | |
| 2000 | — | #8,209 | 7 | |
| 1999 | #14,411 | 5 | #6,530 | 9 |
| 1998 | — | #7,560 | 7 | |
| 1997 | — | #7,281 | 7 | |
| 1996 | — | #9,015 | 5 | |
| 1995 | #10,514 | 7 | #4,791 | 12 |
| 1994 | #13,430 | 5 | #5,452 | 10 |
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| 1992 | — | #7,422 | 6 | |
| 1991 | — | #7,271 | 6 | |
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| 1989 | — | #6,941 | 6 | |
| 1988 | #11,798 | 5 | — | |
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| 1981 | — | #6,262 | 5 | |
| 1980 | — | #6,250 | 5 | |
| 1979 | — | #6,056 | 5 | |
| 1978 | — | #5,059 | 6 | |
| 1977 | — | #5,845 | 5 | |
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| 1975 | — | #5,464 | 5 | |
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| 1973 | — | #5,101 | 5 | |
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The first year at least five boys were named Denim! It came in at #5,101, and was given to 5 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1973–1977, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.
Where Denim is popular in 2024
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
Hover or tap a state for its numbers.
- Louisiana#320 · 1 in 1,230
- Georgia#425 · 1 in 1,966
- Arkansas#484 · 1 in 2,088
- Alabama#579 · 1 in 2,732
- South Carolina#596 · 1 in 2,994
Best ever in a state: #204 in District of Columbia, 2022.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| Louisiana | #320 | 16 | 1 in 1,230 |
| Georgia | #425 | 26 | 1 in 1,966 |
| Arkansas | #484 | 6 | 1 in 2,088 |
| Alabama | #579 | 8 | 1 in 2,732 |
| South Carolina | #596 | 7 | 1 in 2,994 |
| Illinois | #609 | 15 | 1 in 3,346 |
| Missouri | #631 | 8 | 1 in 3,429 |
| Maryland | #634 | 7 | 1 in 3,332 |
| Michigan | #805 | 8 | 1 in 4,997 |
| Ohio | #936 | 8 | 1 in 6,586 |
| Florida | #946 | 14 | 1 in 6,831 |
| Tennessee | #1,017 | 5 | 1 in 7,253 |
| North Carolina | #1,157 | 6 | 1 in 8,525 |
| Pennsylvania | #1,241 | 5 | 1 in 10,450 |
| Texas | #1,331 | 15 | 1 in 11,920 |
| California | #1,731 | 9 | 1 in 20,029 |
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Ranks are within each state; “1 in N” is out of the boys born there that year. The SSA only publishes a name in a state when 5 or more babies of one sex got it.
See more about Denim
- 226 spots since 2024 (#1,106 → #880)
- 535 spots since 2020 (#1,415 → #880)
- 745 spots since 2015 (#1,625 → #880)
- Biggest jump: 226 spots in 2025 (#1,106 → #880)
- Debuted 1973
- Peaked 2025 at #880 (271 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 1 yr · 2025
- Highest: 1 in 6,303 boys born in 2025 were named Denim (0.02%)
- 38.7% of all boys named Denim (1,053) were born in this decade
- Mostly girls until 1988, mostly boys since
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1970s | 26 | #5,059 (1978) | #5,505 |
| 1980s | 16 | #6,250 (1980) | #6,484 |
| 1990s | 62 | #4,791 (1995) | #6,915 |
| 2000s | 546 | #1,834 (2004) | #2,932 |
| 2010s | 1,018 | #1,272 (2017) | #1,676 |
| 2020s | 1,053 | #880 (2025) | #1,190 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 boys in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Denim in 2024
Top girls' names in 2024
Top boys' names in 2024
More about 2024
girls
1,620,190 girls got a published name in 2024; 1 in 18,204 of them was named Denim, which outranked 88.0% of the 17,726 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 7.1% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #2,118Marta90
- #2,118Taya90
- #2,118Tenley90
- #2,134Denim89
- #2,134Aaradhya89
- #2,134Arabelle89
- #2,134Bayleigh89
- #2,150Aavya88
- #2,150Alex88
- #2,150Amorah88
Tied with 15 names at #2,134; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,722,888 boys got a published name in 2024; 1 in 8,881 of them was named Denim, which outranked 92.3% of the 14,294 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.0% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).